Retroflex nasal click

Alveolar nasal click
ǃ̃˞
ᵑǃ˞
‼̃
ᵑ‼
Encoding
Kirshenbaum n.!
Main articles: Retroflex clicks and nasal clicks

The retroflex nasal click is a rare click consonant. There is no symbol for it in the International Phonetic Alphabet, but one can be derived with a diacritic, ǃ̃˞ or ᵑǃ˞. The Beach convention is ᵑ‼, and this use used in practical orthography.

Features

Features of the retroflex nasal click:

Occurrence

Retroflex nasal clicks are only attested from two languages, Central !Kung and Damin.

Language Word IPA Meaning
Daminrn!ii[ᵑǃ˞iː] = [ʗ̃˞iː]?

Glottalized alveolar nasal click

Glottalized
alveolar nasal click
ǃ̃˞ˀ
ᵑǃ˞͜ʔ
ᵑ̊‼ˀ
ᵑ‼ˀ
Main article: Glottalized clicks

All Khoisan languages have glottalized nasal clicks. These are formed by closing the glottis so that the click is pronounced in silence; however, any preceding vowel will be nasalized.

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Central !Kung

Notes

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